Online Reflection 3

Book Reflection

I've chosen to write a reflection on a particular book named 50 great short stories by multiple authors, some of the stories are by famous authors such as Hemingway,Woolf, Faulkner and lesser known writers like Robert Coates and John Collier. 

The first short story I read was  The Garden Party and is about a girl named Laura that has privilege life with very few problems but the day of a garden party she gets into a moral dilemma when a disaster happens, the point of the story was about how attach people are to material things and other stuff that in the end doesn't matter.

There are stories that are better than others but they are all great in their own way. The shortness of the stories made me as reader appreciate the authors imagination and the way they minimalism a tale. Most of the stories in the book could have been a entire book with 500 pages each but the way the authors choose words and select how a story starts and ends makes it fun to read. The English on some of the stories is harder to read than others but overall normal difficulty.  

The pocket book is perfect for a reader like me that has hard time finishing a book or that easily get bored, the book is also good for discovering lesser known authors with different styles that are really good.  

The genre of the stories is pretty diverse but most of them are classics meaning not very modern. Some of the stories have some deeper meaning like The Garden Party that relates to the everyday life and other stories are just difficult to understand, for example The Three-Day Blow by Hemingway is mostly about a couple of guys drinking scotch and because it was Hemingway I expected more so I read it twice in the belief that I missed something.

I bought the book at the airport waiting for my delayed flight and the stories made the time fly (pound intended). I have to admit that I didn't read all the stories but I read most of them and even though it was some time ago I still remember a couple of stories that I really liked: The Lottery by Shyley Jackson, The Garden party by Katherine Mansfield and The man who could work miracles by Wells.